Blank phone calls, potential burglary, HELP?

Get on Amazon or otherwise do some shopping and start looking at spy gear. You can find clocks, stuffed toys, other non-valuable stuff that have recording cameras inside them. This won't be cheap, but how expensive is it to get robbed? And wouldn't it be better for society in general if that individual were caught?

Game trail cameras are also a good choice but they tend to be a bit bulkier, relying on several D batteries so they have good power reserves in the field.

Outside your home, install an exterior electrical box with a conveniently place, disguised hole for the camera to peek through, aimed at the most likely places where it's convenient to park but not too obvious from the street. If you can place more than one camera, that would be better. Something at the most likely points of entry would be good, too, to catch their faces.

The more cameras you have, the better your coverage. None of this will prevent the loss of your stuff, but it can help you get it back (maybe), and have a much better shot at catching the bad guys.

Take a few minutes to write down (or photograph) all the serial numbers of your most valuable possessions. If things get stolen you can take those numbers to local pawn stores to see if your stuff was turned in. If so, the pawn shop will usually maintain a record of who brought what, and that may be another avenue toward nabbing the bad guys.

Spend some time upgrading your home's security. Cheap deadbolts are easily defeated, and a single cylinder deadbolt in a door with lots of windows is easily defeated - pop one pane, turn the bolt. Replace that with a double cylinder lock - keys required both inside and out. Most of the time you just leave a key in the cylinder inside, but when you're away, put that key in a drawer.

There are plenty of add-on devices to bolster your latches. Latches tend to go into old, abused door frames, sometimes not very deeply. A reinforced latch can replace that battered, weak wood with tough steel and provides long, sturdy screws that bite deep into the frame of the wall, not just the cheap 1x stock of the door frame.

Windows that don't lock are a big problem. You can do a lot by simply drilling a hole into the window frame just above the operable window sash and placing a nail in that hole. It doesn't need to be tapped in, just insert it with your finger. It's easy to remove from the inside of the window so you can open it, but it stops the window from opening while it's there. Easy job, very quick.

Sliding doors are a known weak point, and burglars love them. There are lots of solutions out there for reinforcing your sliding doors, and I recommend you avail yourself of as many as possible.

None of this will stop a determined B&E. What you're trying to do is make your place as inconvenient as possible, to make it take more time and be more conspicuous to enter. That kind of thing deters burglars - they don't want attention and they don't want delays. Trip them up, force them to make a bunch of noise or raise a ruckus, and they will choose an easier target.

Good luck with it.

Not answering the calls will make the thieves come around and you will find out who they are.

Sounds like some people that live close by.

Using an answering machine on the phone will make the people wonder if you are there.

We had phone calls like that when we lived in apartments....except the guy would asked for my son had an accent and my son did not know any man that had an accent like the guy had. The word went around that people worked there were taking TVs and things out of the apartments.

I put the message, "We can not come to the phone right now, please leave you message." on the answering machine.

When we went somewhere, we turned on a battery radio to make it sound like we were there.

A relative or someone could house sit when you go on vacation. The thieves will go back when the phone is not answered.

When a house has been burgled, the people usually replace what was broken, or stolen, using insurance money. So, you have lots of bright, shiny, new stuff! This makes you ripe for burglars, who know this.

Get somebody to house sit. Preferably a man